摘要:Following in the line of feminist literary theorists from Helen Cixous
and Catherine Clement (1986) to Patti Lather (2007), the main goal of this
work is to “get lost”(Lather, 2007): to find new ways of saying meaning
through images and writing. Images and text appear together on the page
to provoke a sense of movement and disjuncture between modes of “showing
seeing” (Mitchell, 2002). New meanings are coaxed out of the gaps
between image and text, The text is itself a recombinant form of scientific
discourse, grounded ethnography, personal narrative and metafiction.
Mutant Matter” is part of a longer work that explores the pos